On the KSBs, yes. Didn't work. On the hognose- no. He's too big. And at this point, I can't even pick him up without him hooding up and striking at me. He REALLY hates me right now and I don't really know wtf I did to provoke that sort of reaction from him. He didn't act like this at all when I first got him.
I've cross-posted this to BP.net, hoping someone there can give me advice too.
My boa can be kinda jumpy for a few minutes after he gets woken up sometimes, but if I just kind of hang on to his head gently and stroke him for a few minutes he'll calm down and I can let his head go and he won't strike, he'll just chill and move through my hands/arms like nothing was ever wrong. Be patient with him, and try to spend a little time with him like that until he is calm as often as possible, and he should improve over time. And be okay with getting bit now and then heh :)
=/ bite from a hognose? I dunno about you, I don't want a bite from any snake, much less a snake with saliva irritating enough to cause localized swelling. I think I'm going to agree with neumeindil's reply below, I probably stressed him the frick out, holding his head would probably make it worse.
What happens if he strikes at a mouse? Does he just drop it? I'm wondering if maybe you could egg him on enough to strike it out of aggression. Sometimes they'll strike just because they're annoyed but then realize "oh, this is food".
When ours go off feed, it generally runs 5 to 8 months, and it's always when the days start getting shorter and colder. We don't really worry unless they're still fasting after 6 months, but even then, we simply scent the mice. The smaller of our two had to be stuck in a feeding container in a cupboard to finally break his fast in April. He'd gone since the second week of October last year without a feed. He is perfectly fine and normal for a hognosed, and actually both boys are still eating thanks to the warm autumn we've had in western NY, which is *Weird*. Normally they stop eating at all once the nights consistently hit 50
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I would say he's definitely been left alone for longer than a week- I was out of town last week for a convention and didn't attempt to feed him until this post. I couldn't tell you how long exactly. From at least the 16th to the 26th. I agree, he could still be stressed, I bugged him A LOT trying to get him to eat when I first got him that first and second week after Sept. 9. And on top of that, well, I had just got him, and only gave him less than a week to adjust to his new enclosure (bad on me
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This seems like a long shot, but it worked for me in getting a stubborn Dumerils boa to eat a f/t. See if you can get some of the used cage shavings from a pet store and try scenting it with that. It worked for my Dum, but we were trying a last ditch efford to transition him from live to f/t, not getting a snake to start eating again. It could just be that he goes off feed at this time of the year. My corn snake went a couple of month without eating in the winter time.
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Good luck with your baby.
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